>> good morning and thank you for joining us on this friday may 24th. the top stories that we're following for you this morning. a bridge collapsed in washington state sending drivers i 5 plunging into the river. we will tell you why investigators think the bridge collapsed. >> a powerful earthquake rumbles in russia, sending tremors that were felt for thousands of miles. an earthquake struck here in northern california as well. we will have details coming up. >> a big vote was passed for bicyclist on bart, the details in a live report coming up.

>> we are seeing a very light ride on the area. we are looking at unusually light traffic. here is your quick commute check. we have light traffic in the east bay including interstate 580 and highway 4. some of the bay peninsula and the north the ride is still looking up. >> three people and their cars were tossed into the skagit river north of seattle when the interstate 5 bridge collapsed. no one was killed in the incident yesterday. this is video of the rescue team taking people out of the cessna of order. a team from the national transportation safety board is being sent to the scene to help determine what happened. stay patrols are focusing their investigation on an 18

wheeler that hit the bridge. here is one survivor describing the scary moment. >> when i saw the war approached it was just one of those things where you hold on a scottish japan. it was a lot of cold water. >> authorities say that the bridge was inspected twice last year and they say it was in need of repair. this bridge is a major link between burlington and mount vernon counties. the washington state and dot says about 77,000 people traveled this bridge at daily. here in the bay are >> in the bay area, we are

focusing on our bridge and its problems. the br bay bridge is still dealing with the bolts. the bridge to collapse and washington is a reminder of how important the safety of bridges areis. while crews are working to insure the safety of the new span of the bay bridge, the same question still remains. if kron 4 approves or on the new span yesterday and got a firsthand look at how the repair is going. drilling under the new spy was just beginning in an effort to

repair the dozens of broken bolts/ caltran says that the bolts are no longer useful so they are building a still unsettled to hold a bridge down the same way that the bolts would. the new span will not open until the saddle is secured in place. >> a powerful earthquake in russia's far east set out tremors that were felt for thousands of miles. the epicenter was east of a russian coast and north of japan. the quake registered a magnitude of 8.0. it was one of the most active regions of the world. tremors or were even felt in moscow, which is 4,400 mi. away. officials say that the earthquake originated 375 mi. under the seabed and with the tremors so far

down, they have the potential to spread quite far. >> new this morning, a palo alto man is wanted over a quadruple murder in the czech republic. he has been detained by police as he flew into washington d.c.. 20 year-old kevin dahlgren, was arrested last night. the suspect had flown to andulles

airport on a flight from vienna. the check the justice ministry issued an international arrest warrant for the man. he is suspected of murdering his check on it, her husband and their two sons aged 25 and 16. their bodies were discovered late on wednesday in the family's house. >> and bicyclist are celebrating this morning after the bart board of directors voted to lift a ban on bike's of board rush hour trains. this will last for five months. kron4 as mike pelton is live at the walnut creek bart station with more on how this will work. >> this will be from july 1st thru november 1st. the bikes are allowed on bart at

any time except for peak hours. they are never all baconsidered multiple options. officials conducted a writer survey that shows 76 percent of them were in favor of this. the people that i spoke with this morning stated that it was time for change. >> and convenience, no perry ed every once in a wall, >> i am sure there will be a convinces but they can accommodate this and make it work. >> there is still there change of people who do not

want this to happen. they will have a bike at ticket campaign in the month of july. bart officials will review this before they vote on a permanent change in november. >> the time is 6:08 a.m. perry ed they are telling drivers in the washington state area that they are to avoid an area because there's so much pressure due to this bridge been collapsed. there stating people that this is affecting interstate 5 and it is about 60 mi. north of seattle. there is a break in the highway and they have the stores because of this bridge collapsing. this bridge collapsed because 8 truck struck it. we will be right back with more.

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>> the time is 6:11 a.m.. openly gay youths will not be allowed to join the boy scouts. more than 60 percent of 1400 voting members of the boy scouts of america voted for the historic policy change yester day. it will take effect january

1st. the approved resolution says, " no use may be denied membership in the boy scouts of america on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone. " the vote followed months of intense debate among interest groups and within the ranks of scouting itself. however, the beat as a did not vote on whether to remove this bed on gay adult leaders. >> the internal revenue service official who publicly revealed that the agency targeted tea party groups has been replaced. lois lerner has been placed on administrative leave. lerner proclaimed her innocence of any wrongdoing to the house committee on wednesday. she oversees the irs you that that was targeting conservative groups. a treasury inspector general says that she

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>> the time is 6:15 a.m.. >> it is a clear start for the morning. take a look at the temperatures. we are still in the low 40's and napa up. the temperatures at this hour are a little cooler than the seasonal average. we will continue

with these and cooler temperatures a letter on today. if future cast 4 highlights the blue for 50s. take a look at places like san francisco, the green indicates the '60s inside of the bay. the inland spots in the yellow are showing 70's for those of you in fairfield. by 3:00 p.m. this indicates 70's. cooler weather is on the way by 8:00 p.m. tonight. >> i do want to focus on afternoon highs for today. it is mainly low 70's in the south bay. it will be 74 for all to my a valid. fairfield, and not will be is 74 degrees. low 60's for downtown san francisco. 67

will be your high for ovato. >> sunday will be partly cloudy skies heading into memorial day. we may wake up to sprinkles on memorial day. by tuesday evening most committees was a less than a 10th of an inch of rain. the wet weather will and had just about everyone. it was not produced too much in the wake of wet weather. the unsettled weather will continue into the middle of next week. >> we are enjoying a very good ride this friday before the holiday weekend. we have light traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. it may be a little hard for you to see due to the sun shining. but, these lands pleasanter, the fast track planes are still open and the meter and lights have not been activated for the westbound part of a bridge. there is a backup at the cash lanes. the san mateo bridge highway

92 is looking good. they have lighter than usual traffic. here is your ride for the golden gate bridge were 1 01 southbound runs freely from marin county. >> 14 to 16 minute drive mewhere is all of the traffic. there's no one on the roadway. westbound highway 24 is looking good so does your ride through the san malone valid.alley. your ride on 1 01 north bound has no delays. 85 is looking good and the 101 marin ride is still okay. the drive time is still under 25 minutes. >> taking a look at wall

street this morning. futures trading shows all three indexes in the-this morning. investors recovered their poise after a shaky start to trading on wall street as some shocks sharply lower yesterday. >> here is a look at the closing numbers. the dow closed at $15.294 losing almost 13 points. the nasdaq fell nearly 4 points closing at 3459. the s&p 500 closed almost five points at ending the day at 1650. we will be watching the stock market all morning long here on the kron 4 morning news, starting at 6:30 a.m. with the opening bell. >> pandora is on a rise and they are having better than expected revenue. they are up by 4 percent.

>> president obama recast the united states the fight against terrorism as no longer a cold bottle is global war " but a targeted effort to dismantle certain extremism networks. he also renewed his pledge to close the prison at guantanamo bay. president obama said that " the core of out data in afghanistan and pakistan is on a path to defeat, " but it's affiliate's elsewhere pose a danger. today the president will address this year's class of graduates of the naval academy and anapolis, maryland. >> new evidence this morning has been released in the treyvon martin murder case. george is a men's attorneys have release contents from martin cell phone saying that it paints a different

picture of the 17 year-old. the evidence includes a text messages to discussing drug and the use and sell firearms along with pitchers of marijuana and a gun. zimmerman faces a second- degree murder charges for shooting martin in florida 14 months ago. zimmerman says that he shot the teen in self-defense while volunteering during a neighborhood watch. >> in phoenix, ariz. the jury trying to decide whether jodi arias should live or die is dead locked. they told a judge just a bit today could not reach a unanimous decision. that means that a mistrial and another juror will be selected for the penalty part of the trial. she has already been convicted of killing her former of warfarin in 2008. now she heads back to jail to await the new penalty phase which is not set to start until mid july.

>> we are also learning more this morning about the use british soldier that was murdered in london wednesday. police say that lee rigby was executed by two islamic fanatics in what is being described as a terror attack. 25 year-old rigby was an army drummer and a father of a 2 year- old. his two attackers were shot and injured by police. the attack is all the more shocking because the attackers identified as briton britons with ties to attackers identified as briton britons with ties to nigeria, wergoodnight. thanks, olivia. thank you. so you can make a payment from your cell to almost anyone's phone or email. (speaking french)

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>> plenty of sunshine and those '70s today. it is a clear start to the morning. chilly start once again at low 40's in vallejo and santa rosa island have a look a year after an highs in your seven day coming up at 6:45 a.m.. >> here's a look at the san mateo bridge, highway 92. we're not tracking any hot spots this morning, it is light traffic all over the

bay area. highway four there and get westbound as a result of an earlier occurring accident. interstate 580 is light this to the altamont. like conditions for most south bay freeways. >> an update on the bridge collapse on i five in washington state. three people and their cars plunging into rivers and north of seattle. this is a truck that made it to the top of the bridge. amazingly, no one was killed. a team from the national transportation safety board is being sent to the scene to help determine what happened. stay patrols are focusing their investigation on an 18 wheeler-hit the bridge. >> we have a semi truck that

was southbound interstate 5 in what we call lane one, the right lane. the size of the low that he was carrying occurred to create a problem, causing him to strike the bridge. >> we have some work to do on our bridges whether and not this accident happened. we have some discussions and olympia making sure we make investments to bridges to prevent this type of thing from happening. >> the bridge is a major link between burlington and mt. vernon counties. the washington state dot says about 77,000 people traveled as bridge daily. >> despite the high risk of tornadoes in some states like oklahoma, not a single state requires storm shelters in new homes. kosti but remained a deterrent against putting personal shelters and homes, even though they could save

lives. you're looking at one family who survived are 10:00 a.m. an alabama after building a safe room in their home. there's also a general resistance to government mandates and politically conservative states in the nation's heartland where tornadoes have been the most. right now, oklahoma offers $2,000 in rebates to residents to win a special storm shelter lottery. all thof this comes as the mayor of more obama suggested storm shelters it should be mandatory for new homes. country star terry underwood has donated a million dollars to the red cross for disaster relief across the country, including oklahoma. underwood said she watched the tornado devastation with great sadness and with the help of her fans over the past year they can aid the red cross and helping the storm victims. >> center of the police

released photos and descriptions of the suspects to ride the redwood credit union on fourth street monday morning. three armed and masked man ordered customers and employees to the floor of the credit union and fled with cash and a silver colored band that was reported stolen in vallejo. no one was injured in the robbery. the robbers have a light complexion and dressed in black and the sweat shirts. one suspect was about 62 in. with the patent that build and another was 6 ft. and had an average build. the third suspect was 5 ft. 8 ft5 ft. 8 t5 ft. 9 in. with a stocky build. a $25,000 reward is offered for the arrest and conviction of the suspects. a federal complaint was filed against university

california berkeley and three other colleges relating to how the schools have been handling allegations of rape. at a women's rights attorney gloria allred who is representing the women in the case said that some of the grievances filed word title nine complaints alleging a hostile environment for women. other complaints charge the colleges with violating the federal cleary act, which requires accurate reporting of campus crimes. in 2012 the berkeley police department says there were 39 reported rape cases. nine of those were attempted rapes. compared to 20 rigs in 2011 that is a 95% rise from year to year. representatives for uc- berkeley said they had not seen the complaint and could not comment on the specifics. they added that they would they do take sexual assaults very seriously. the women are hoping for an investigation by the department of education.

>> woodside man has been found guilty of killing his wife to try to collect millions of dollars in life insurance. peter parineh was and they did yesterday of first-degree murder. he told his daughter that he shot his wife parima and then told her she tried to kill herself. investigators say parima was shot six times, too many times for a suicide. they also found that she had a 31 million and life insurance that would have been paid their family and had she committed suicide. parineh faces life in prison without parole. he is scheduled to be sentenced july 12th. >> you have been warned by me, if you want to save some money without having to

drag to fire at their it is, 8¢ cheaper across the street. we want to show you prices all over the bay area. that is a little cheaper here than in san francisco. if you're waking up in san francisco to fill up your tank, $4.13. in san jose, $4.50 and in oakland $4.40. on average, we're paying 16¢ more over the past two weeks. we got a chance to talk to some drivers this morning, said lee memorial weekend is when we see the difference in prices especially when a lot of refineries switch from the winter blend into the summer blend. that means prices are going up and up. >> it does not make much sense. we know that we have refineries closed by. you would think that it would be a little cheaper here but it is not. i don't get.

>> the notice that it continues to climb just about every time you go to fill up your jeep here? >> i don't pay all whole lot of attention to be honest. it is just there. >> translation, he still mommy doesn't even see the prices anymore. that is what aaa is saying as well. but the gas prices, get over it, get used to it. they compare this year to last year and say yag gas prices are high but at least last year you're paying more. it yet a 15 gal. tank of gas, that means you're flying about $4 yes last for memorial day weekend. >> you're not paying as much as last year, i wonder if that makes anyone feel better? >> game 5 for the san jose sharks last night in the second round of the nhl

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against. they did not have enough to take on this bridge that was made of aged dry it would. it was made back in 1910. the flames were so hot, they could not get close to it. they just watched it topple and tumble. the damagese mated to ba million dollars. farmers use that real wind so now they're going to have to use another way of transit. no one was hurt. >> that is amazing video. let's get an update on weather and traffic. >> we are going into the holiday weekend with plenty of sunshine. another cold start to your day, temperatures are in the 40's. later today, mostly sunny skies and afternoon highs will be a little warmer than yesterday. some locations will climb into the '70s was cleared

locations tonight. another call start out there, some isolated areas and the upper 30's. vallejo 41 the santa rosa 41, upper '40's out the door in fairfield. into the afternoon, you will see 60s and predominantly low '70's in the south bay. the amended valley is 73, up 72 in santa clara. pittsburg, one of the warmest bought that 75. anticipate mid to upper 60s on the east bay shore line, 74 and napa up. cooler weather into the weekend, at least the second half. partly cloudy skies and morning drizzle on sunday. memorial day, expect cloudy skies and the potential for showers and is increased to a 40 percent chance. tuesday night most

of the bay area will see about a 10th of an inch of rain. temperatures a little warmer by the middle of next week but we are still trending below the seasonal average. 6:50 a.m. here is george. >> what a great ride we have around the bay this morning. we're not tracking any hot ooki hard to find any slow traffic. there is none here at the bay bridge toll plaza, the metering lights have not been activated. there is no backup for the westbound ride. if you're lucky enough to have a job they go to work today, you have an easy ride going in. the san mate bridge, highway 92 no delays is down or westbound. there is a little slowing on the approaches toll plaza but not much. the golden gate bridge ride looks good. if not seen the usual flow of northbound cars that we typically would on a friday morning. the writer of the

bay area is light. second of traffic maps, 60 minutes drive time from hercules to berkeley, almost unheard of at this hour. westbound 24 no delays to the caldecott, a little slowing on the approach. 680 southbound, to 42 they all look good. a little bit of congestion building in on the bay shore freeway north of 237 toward palo alto. the marin at ride is still under 38 minutes from about two central sever fell to the golden gate bridge. >> some labor unions that initially backed president obama is a health-care overhaul are now frustrated and angry about what they say are unexpected consequences of the plan that could hurt their members. leaders of several retail, construction and trade unions as the affordable care act is making their unique multi employer plans more costly

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>> 655 a m and we had a little cool down into the long weekend and maybe even rain on memorial weekend. i like the way george put it. if you are lucky enough to be waking up and driving to a drought. and then you have monday off. call yourself lucky all around.

an actor's life can be exhausting. michael caine and morgan freeman were doing satellite interviews wednesday with a local tv station over the country. his chat with a seattle tv station, the 75 year old free men appeared to doze off a couple of times. payne seemed oblivious and kept talking. freeman did seven later in the interview and when asked a question about his career. the men were promoting their new-found now using the which hits theaters next week. >> they are not digging ditches. >> he is morgan freeman, he can't do anything wrong. we will continue to follow the latest out of washington, that is the bridge that collapsed into the river late yesterday afternoon. we'll have

details on that story coming up. let's bikes on bart, you have used to them. authorities have set the wheels in motion to allow bicycles on all commuter trains and the san francisco bay area. a live report coming up. also watching weather and traffic this morning for a holiday weekend we'll be checking in with erica who has a look at our forecast. we will be right back. ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ]

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>> thanks for joining is on this friday may 24th, the latest on the i five bridge collapse and washington state sent drivers plunging into this guy get river. we was a while investigators and the bridge collapsed. >> a powerful earthquake rumbles in russia sending tremors were felt for thousands of miles. an earthquake struck fear northern california as well, details coming up.